The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-24
Morphine Habit Again Cured.

We copy the following in regard to the
cure of the Morphine Habit from the Holly
Springs South, and the accompanying GER
tifcate from the Natchez Banner. This is
getting to be a very important matter.
We know one of the editors of the South,
State Senator Kemp, and the statements
he makes can be implicitly relied upon.
And we will add that Mr.. Wood, whom we
have known from his boyhood, called at
The CLARION Office on his return to Nat
chez, and stated in terms of confidence |
and gratitude, that DIR. Gray had complete |
" cured him of the morphine habit:
From Holly Springs SOUTH
Six months ago We announced in these
columns the cure of Mrs. Baum, who lives
near this place, of the morphine habit, by
DR.. ]. W. Gray. of this city.
She had formed the habit % years pre-
viously, and was using 50 grains per day.
| Mrs. Baum is cured.
| A few weeks ago we mentioned the case
of another lady from a town on the l. c.
| R. R. south of this place. For fifteen years
she had used the drug habitually.
/ We will now tell our readers of case
1 that leaps the climax"
| Mr.. Wallace Wood, of Natchez, son of
| the late Gen. Wood of that place, arrived
here on the 21st day of June, and put HIM
self under the treatment of DR.. Gray. This
gentleman has been taking morphine habit
ually for IL years, the last five years hypo-
ldermicalIy. One grain hypedermically has
the effect of two or more by mouth.
One of the editors of this paper saw Mr..
Wood day or two after getting here, and
We never saw such sight as his arms
shoulders, thighs, hips, and part OF his
body presented: he had punctured himself
with a aypodermic needle until there
seemed to ba no other place to puncture.
He was covered with sores and assesses.
He took at o'clock every morning ten
grains of morphine ten grains at o'clock
q M. ten at d. ID. and fifteen at bedtime.
; making forty five grains every q hours.
This is a very remarkable tale but II is the
J truth. He told US he sometimes increased
| ii to sixty grains. He was pale and
emaciated. In this condition he put him
D self under Dr. Gray to be treated for the
|, | morphine habit To-day we have seen
!, him again. II Q has gone through the treat
+ ment and says he Is a cured man. He has
h taken no me1i cine now of any kind for ter
+ DAYS and feels no desire for any. That hs
1 | is comfortable now without morphine Oh
+ any thing else. He is taking nothing in
: the way of medicine. We consider this
! one of the greatest triumphs OF the heallng
art. that such case as this can be cureS
t in three wes ks, and judging from the cass
il of Mrs. Bilum. permanently cured. Dr.
e Gray says the theory Of his treatment !
d saturation of the system with other RENE
IS dies and eradication of the desire for NOR
"a phine and exciting TO action the lon
N locked up secretions of the great organs
n Then real cure is effected. The result
i, in these three cases prove the CORRECTNESS
.. of the theory. These are not the onl
n cases which have been cured by this trea
=. menf. hut are three bad cases. which hav
ly fallen under our observation, but these AZ
n enough to prove that this is no delusion-
or no humbug. When q penSon has bee
us using this drug, as these persons have-fs
ne long years and find themselves relieved I
be the necessity of nSing il at all there IS !
humbug in that Mr. Wood will leave f
ne home soon, where he can be addressed,
a anyone wishes to know if what we ha'
W. stated are the facts. Other gentlemen
III this city saw. examined and conrers'
with Mr. Wood, to-wit: Gen. A. M- w
the and Others.